Culture Quotes
The words ‘I love you’ are worthless when you don’t know who the 'I' is in that statement.
Hope can be foolish or misguided, but there was no such thing as false hope. Hope was always true even when there was no evidence to support its claim.” - Liam
Love is not for thrill-seekers, dreamers, or children with short attention spans. And you, son, fit into all three of those categories.
If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.
No matter what is happening in the world, I continue to believe in humanity. The power of positive thinking is always enough.
If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply the observation that we are all much more alike than we are unalike.
The uniqueness of different colours represents the uniqueness of individuals!
I find it funny when people try to brag about being younger than me...like having lived less is an accomplishment. Makes me want to pat them on the head, lol. I'm comfortable with who I am.
The first sound a child hears is very important. It determines character. A Muslim child always hears the Azan first. Words in praise of God. Words to live by.
Our culture of violence is an incubator, where our children are the crop of future techno-warrior killers.
A culture of vultures steeped and born of violence shall choke on the blood of its offspring.
A ‘white’ kid that asks too many questions is called *curious.* A ‘black’ kid that asks too many questions is called *forward.*
There are only two things you’ll ever need to know about me, Farin—and you should know them well. I’m very smart, and I’m very rich.
At home you could depend on your parents, but in America you are on your own and should make as many friends as you can . . . You don't know who may hold out a helpful hand in your hour of need.
I’ve been working on something that merges rap with classical…. I call it Baby’s Got Bach.
If you going rape me, rape me already and leave me in whichever ditch you leave woman. Just stop bore me with your r’asscloth mouth
In a certain light, feminism is just the long, slow realization that the stuff you love hates you
Our culture is getting better and better at encouraging women to speak, but it’s not doing enough to listen to what they say when they do.
It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society.
The quality of a society and of its culture will depend on the status of its unemployed.
It is impossible to examine questions we refuse to ask.
And I'm probably wrong. Maybe not completely, but partially. And maybe not today, but eventually.
The practical reality is that any present-tense version of the world is unstable. What we currently consider to be true--both objectively and subjectively--is habitually provisional.
And the quality all these reasonable failures share is an inability to accept that the statue quo is temporary.
The world happens as it happens, but we construct what we remember and what we forget. And people will eventually do that to us, too.
And if something is only itself, it doesn't particularly matter.
It's difficult to cope with the infinite variety of the past, and so we apply filters and settle on a few famous names.
A different Australia emerged in the 1950s. A multicultural one, and 30 years on we're still trying to fit in as ethnics and we're still trying to fit the ethnics in as Australians.
We are force-fed beliefs through incessant advertisements by a culture that ceaselessly fosters our conformity to values which are of no service to the individual.
Some skeptics believe religious people are religious because they fear Hell. It's about as fair as saying skeptics are skeptics because they fear the ridicule of modern society.
I saw them do it. Chip vandals. Right there on Commerce, behind the main road...They cut his head open. They know I watched.
I’d been an outcast my entire life. Growing up with technophobe parents in the dawn of a Cyborg Age did that to a person.
When there is no Personal Responsibility in any society, there cannot be a responsible government. Responsible government is an off shoot of a culture of Personal Responsibility.
Often I didn’t think I was cut out for the way the world is, being born into a common culture and system I would never choose for myself.
But colonization had a nasty tendency to work its way into the DNA, the beliefs and philosophies and the very ways of life of the people being colonized.
We have a name for the sum of grievances and compromises, this sheer normality of life lived among other people. We call it civilization. Culture, society, the workaday interactions of ordinary time.
Most people want so desperately to be an individual yet are so easily shaped by the media.
Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism.
An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come.
I believe he was feeling a bit nervous. Possibly it was my costume that took him aback. I was dressed quite well, even elegantly, and looked as if I belonged to the best society.